Antonios Triantafyllakis

Current occupation

Learning Designer & Gamification Coach

Work experience

I design and implement engaging educational activities for upskilling and reskilling people on skills for the 21st century. I provide training and education on soft skills, as well as coaching and consulting on the gamification of learning. I do so under my personal brand, MYTRAINER, and collaborate with various freelance trainers, NGOs and purpose-driven companies around the world.

When it comes to training, I focus on the learners creating the content and me providing the structure for them to thrive, in a creative and collaborative way through which everyone learns by experience, has fun and is ready to apply the skills gained into action directly!

I absolutely love volunteering and have been doing so for more than 15 years now, starting even before getting won over by international youth work, which revealed my passion for Non-Formal Education and Experiential Learning. I've worked for various youth organisations, international, European and national NGOs and informal local groups.

I've proudly co-developed and co-facilitated the Training Advanced Trainers structure for IFMSA (the world's largest medical students' association, present in 123 countries on six continents), served as Speaker of AEGEE-Academy (the official pool of trainers of AEGEE-Europe - one of Europe's largest interdisciplinary youth organisations), and have delivered more than 800 hours of training/facilitation in a multicultural context, to over 1400 trainees in more than 60 international events in 3 continents.

I'm an active member of the International Youth Work Trainers Guild (IYWT), the Octalysis Prime community of gamification experts, Factory Berlin (the largest tech hub in Europe), as well as the Trainers' Forum (TsF) community.

I also have professional experience as a web & graphic designer, cinema manager, computer or sound technician and singer/stage performer. I do however value my volunteer experience much higher, as I feel I have developed many more skills non-formally rather than formally, by being given the chance to manage a team or coordinate a project/event and, above all, to teach people in an experiential, interactive and fun way, which has led to pursuing a professional career as a soft skills trainer/facilitator and consultant on gamification and experiential learning.

I regularly hold workshops and courses on 21st century skills for young people, as well as coaching and consulting on gamification for various companies and freelancers.

I have also been working as a professor for GBSB (Global Business School Barcelona), teaching the course "Enabling Gamification through Digital Technologies" at the Fall Quarter of the Online Master in Digital Business.

I have worked as a game designer for the following EU-funded projects:
▫ StrateCrowd - Crowdfunding Strategies for Business Sustainability
▫ K2Games - Learning by playing

I have worked as a full-time trainer/facilitator in the following international youth work projects:
▫ International Youth Conference 2021 (Youth Alliance Krusevo, North Macedonia)
▫ EYP Summer Academy 2021 (European Youth Parliament - Online & in Prague, Czech Republic)
▫ Future of Education Hackathon (N3XTCODER - Online, 2021)
▫ Future of Education Hackathon (N3XTCODER - Online, 2020)
▫ International Youth Conference 2019 (Youth Alliance Krusevo, North Macedonia)
▫ pre-General Assembly of IFMSA August Meeting | Training of Advanced Trainers (Taiwan, 2019)
▫ Training New Trainers China 2019 (IFMSA-China training)
▫ Local Training Course 2019 of AEGEE-Budapest (Hungary)
▫ Regional Training Course Iasi (AEGEE-Academy training - Romania 2019)
▫ pre-General Assembly of IFMSA March Meeting | Training of Advanced Trainers (Slovenia, 2019)
▫ Sub Regional Training Belgium: Changemakers SRT | Training of Advanced Trainers (IFMSA - Belgium 2018)
▫ Youth Against Extremism and Radicalisation (Erasmus+ training - Hungary 2018)
▫ Mini Human Resources European School Moskva 2018 (AEGEE-Academy training - Russia)
▫ Meanwhile in Siberia (New Year Event of AEGEE-Moskva/Tuymen - Russia 2018)
▫ Training New Trainers Bucuresti 2017 (AEGEE-Academy training - Romania)
▫ Transsiberian Dream. On cloud 9! (Summer University of AEGEE-Moskva - Russia, 2017)
▫ YO!Fest 2017 (European Youth Forum event - Netherlands)
▫ GROW (Scoala de Valori / AIESEC project - Romania, 2017)
▫ Training New Trainers Cluj-Napoca 2016 (AEGEE-Academy training - Romania)
▫ Local Training Course 2016 of AEGEE-Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
▫ A taste of FRES (AEGEE-Cluj-Napoca board training - Romania, 2016)
▫ Democracy, where are you going? (AEGEE-Madrid event - Spain, 2016)
▫ AEGEE-Bergamo Teambuilding Weekend (Italy, 2015)
▫ HyperYouth3000 (Erasmus+ training – Denmark, 2015)
▫ Network Meeting Kastoria 2015 (AEGEE-Europe event - Greece)
▫ Summer University Project School Cluj-Napoca 2015 (AEGEE-Academy/SUCT training, Romania)
▫ There and back again - Winter LTC 2015 (AEGEE-Heraklio event - Greece)
▫ Summer University Project School Izmir 2014 (AEGEE-Academy/SUCT training - Turkey)
▫ MATRIX activism 2.0 (Youth in Action training – Georgia, 2014)
▫ FYGO - Feeling Younger by Getting Older (Grundtvig project – Greece, 2014)

And a part-time trainer/facilitator in:
▫ TED Circles (facilitated discussions on a monthly theme inspired by TED talks - at Factory Berlin & Online, 2020-2021)
▫ North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress (Income Movement - Online, 2021)
▫ The Art and Game of Meaningful Connections. Want to Play? (Creative Mornings & Cozy Juicy Real - Online, 2021)
▫ CONVERGE21: The Workshop Edition (Convercent by OneTrust - Online, 2021)
▫ The Reconnection Series: Reconnect with Others (The Call to Connection - Online, 2021)
▫ Online Training Festival (week-long training event by Trainers’ Forum - Online, 2021)
▫ European Regional Meeting 2021 - preEuRegMe (IFMSA - Online, 2021)
▫ Annual Peer Education Workshop of MMSA's Standing Committee on Peer Education and Training (Online, 2020)
▫ Future For All congress (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie - Online, 2020)
▫ sense_month, a digital event series on mental health and well-being (makesense Berlin event - Germany/Online 2020)
▫ EYE Online (European Parliament European Youth Event - Online, 2020)
▫ Summer University of AEGEE-Voronezh/Rostov-na-Donu/Kharkiv/Odessa (Russia/Ukraine 2018)
▫ Local meeting of AEGEE-Passau (AEGEE-Passau event - Germany 2018)
▫ Citizenship at its Grassroots (AEGEE-Europe event - Poland 2018)
▫ Connecting Europe (AEGEE-Europe event - Greece 2018)
▫ Network Meeting Cluj-Napoca 2017 of AEGEE-Cluj-Napoca (AEGEE-Europe event - Romania)
▫ Network Meeting Kyiv 2017 of AEGEE-Kyiv (AEGEE-Europe event - Ukraine)
▫ Spring Agora Enschede 2017 (AEGEE-Europe statutory event - Netherlands)
▫ European Planning Meeting Zagreb 2017 (AEGEE-Europe statutory event, Croatia)
▫ Trainers' Forum 2017 (Poland)
▫ Network Meeting Ankara 2016 of AEGEE-Ankara (AEGEE-Europe event - Turkey)
▫ Autumn Agora Chisinau 2016 (AEGEE-Europe statutory event - Moldova)
▫ 17th University on Youth and Development (Council of Europe - Spain, 2016)
▫ Ideas Factory - Planning Meeting (AEGEE-Europe statutory event - Spain, 2016)
▫ Summer University 2016 of AEGEE-Kyiv (Ukraine)
▫ Spring Agora Bergamo 2016 (AEGEE-Europe statutory event - Italy)
▫ Borderless Europe: Blessing or Burden? (AEGEE-Europe event, Romania, 2016)
▫ Euro-BRICS Young Leaders' Platform Planning Meeting (France, 2016)
▫ European Planning Meeting Leiden 2016 (AEGEE-Europe statutory event, Netherlands)
▫ Gala Ball Weekend in Heidelberg (AEGEE-Heidelberg event, Germany, 2016)
▫ dioNYsiaE : The Revival of Gods (AEGEE-Salerno event – Italy, 2015)
▫ Leaders for Europe (EuroDEMOS project – Romania, 2015)
▫ Network Meeting Krakow 2015 of AEGEE-Krakow (AEGEE-Europe event - Poland)
▫ Summer University 2015 of AEGEE-Dresden/Wroclaw/Berlin (Poland, Germany)
▫ Summer Universities 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015 of AEGEE-Heraklio (Greece)
▫ Pitstop 2013 (Youth in Action training - Austria)
▫ the threads that connect us (Grundtvig project - Greece, 2012)